The Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar, has been floating some ideas.  The latest one concerns increased unemployment benefits – along the lines of basic European practice (sort of).  His…

One of the impacts of the CSO’s recent National Accounts data – the one that shows the economy growing by 26 percent – is that all our main economic measurements…

The following appeared in the Irish Independent on Saturday, July 16th Unite believes that the implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) are so far-reaching that it must…

There is a narrative among the Left that claims that capital has not wasted the recessionary opportunity, that capital has exploited the crisis to depress wages in order to boost…

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?             The barbarians are due here today.  Why isn’t anything happening in the senate? Why do the senators sit there without…

The Low Pay Commission (LPC) will soon be making its recommendation for the National Minimum Wage. Last year, they recommended a 50 cents increase in the hourly wage – nine…